Serbis

A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real "star" of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion. The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.

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Bigasan

Bigasan is one of those films that feel overly familiar, as if everything in it is something that you’ve seen before. It rehashes every faux-indie plot produced in the last five years, tacking on only the most facile of changes. But if the only crime Bigasan committed was being familiar, that wouldn’t be too bad. The bigger problem is that none of the stories actually go anywhere, the movie feeling like seventy minutes of wheel-spinning and fabricated drama. Bigasan tells the story of a poor community regularly by government trucks selling rice at subsidized prices. The people line up for hours to get their share of the rice, while those who don’t have money to pay for their meager portion end up doing all sorts of things in order to get food on the table. There’s the mother (Ana Capri) who pimps out her teenage son to a gay benefactor. There’s young mother who prostitutes herself. There’s her husband who works despite having tuberculosis. There’s the elderly woman who lives off the scraps of a ruthless loan shark.

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Imoral

Tackles the dynamics of the relationship of a husband with his wife and his lover -- and they all live together in one house.

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